≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Horror, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Drama
Director: Oxide Pang
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Here’s the problem: with Ab-Normal Beauty, writer/director Oxide Pang creates a thoughtful, lovely examination of the artistic mind, but then he takes a big dump on his own work by tacking on horror/thriller elements which don’t add to the discussion he started. The shame […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Yun-ho Yang
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Faithful readers will no doubt recall that I consider Jerry Bruckheimer responsible for indirectly ruining more action movies, through his bad example, than any other director alive. Directors of the world: stop imitating Jerry Bruckheimer! Unless you’re only trying to make money, that is, because artistically, […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay
Director: Joe Ma
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s not easy to make a film with the premise of Sasori nearly unwatchable, but director Joe Ma does his best.
Nami Matsushima (Mizuno Miki) is waiting for her boyfriend, Hei Tai (Dylan Kuo), to bring his father and sister home from the airport, when her […]
≡ Category: Action, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: Alex Cheung
Year: 1985
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Danger Has Two Faces is one of those transitional films caught between the older Shaw Brothers style and the Golden Age of Hong Kong. Oddly enough, as the film progresses, it becomes steadily more modern.
At first, the acting and direction are so hyper-stylized that the […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Horror
Director: Danny Pang/ Oxide Pang
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
On the basis of The Eye 2, you would never know that the Pang Brothers ever shot a film in their lives, much less had a reputation as autuers.
The problems start with the script, although the basis situation has promise.
Let me set the scene. […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, France, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Art/ Drama
Director: Amos Gitai
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Please understand. I don’t think One Day You’ll Understand is a bad film necessarily. It’s just that this is a website devoted to Trash Cinema, and One Day You’ll Understand has neither the energy or intent of the movies that I gravitate to. And it […]
≡ Category: Action, Blaxploitation, Comedy, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Blaxploitation
Director: Jamaa Fanaka
Year: 1982
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Within minutes, it’s obvious that writer/director Jamaa Fanaka has abandoned the relatively serious intent of Penitentiary. A Star Wars style crawl comes up on the screen, bringing us up to date on the saga of Too Sweet (Leon Isaac Kennedy), accompanied by ludicrous […]
≡ Category: Drama, Mainstream, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Dennis Lee
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s a bit of a hard call to say that Fireflies In The Garden isn’t worth your time. It’s not a complete piece of crap. It does have virtues. It makes it easier that this is a website devoted to Trash Cinema, so I […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action
Director: Phillip Chan
Year: 1986
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When you’re making hot chocolate, a fatal mistake is to put too much milk and sugar, and not enough chocolate. It may seem obvious that chocolate is what gives hot chocolate it’s flavor, but go to almost any coffee shop and you’ll find that […]
≡ Category: Action, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Greg Marcks
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The Echelon Conspiracy may have roughly 1/10 of the budget of Eagle Eye, but it is only half as stupid. Which is not to say that Echelon Conspiracy is a good movie. There are frequent lapses in believability, for one thing.
For example, let’s say that […]